Re: [SLUG] RAID-5 array problems

2004-07-19 Thread Malcolm V
On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 15:53, Ben de Luca wrote: > andrew fries message regarding lilo twiged me to what might be going > on, I am sure that linux software raid writes some thing to the disk? > does hotadd add this? if it doesnt the raid wont recognise it.? For the raid to be seen at boot time, t

Re: [SLUG] RAID-5 array problems

2004-07-18 Thread Ben de Luca
EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 19 July 2004 12:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SLUG] RAID-5 array problems Dear All, I have a RAID-5 array consisting of three 40GB disks (ext3) on a machine running Redhat 3.0ES. Recently one of the three disks failed; hdf. All continued happily on two

Re: [SLUG] RAID-5 array problems

2004-07-18 Thread Dean Hamstead
ssage- From: Chris Henman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 19 July 2004 12:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SLUG] RAID-5 array problems Dear All, I have a RAID-5 array consisting of three 40GB disks (ext3) on a machine running Redhat 3.0ES. Recently one of the three disks failed

Re: [SLUG] RAID-5 array problems

2004-07-18 Thread James Gray
Rowling, Jill wrote: The only time I've ever heard of different types of disks used in a RAID system is when people make up a RAID-0 stripe from JBOD. Or the space cadet who created a RAID-5 with Disksuite (Solaris software RAID for the uninitiated) with 2 drives: 1 x 4Gb 1 x 8Gb (sliced as 2 x 4G

RE: [SLUG] RAID-5 array problems

2004-07-18 Thread Rowling, Jill
enman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 19 July 2004 12:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SLUG] RAID-5 array problems Dear All, I have a RAID-5 array consisting of three 40GB disks (ext3) on a machine running Redhat 3.0ES. Recently one of the three disks failed; hdf. All cont

[SLUG] RAID-5 array problems

2004-07-18 Thread Chris Henman
Dear All, I have a RAID-5 array consisting of three 40GB disks (ext3) on a machine running Redhat 3.0ES. Recently one of the three disks failed; hdf. All continued happily on two disks. Yeterday I bought some new disks; 3 x 80GBs. I replaced the bad disk with a new one, formated and partione